The British press is by and large one of the most revolting institutions I’ve ever encountered. They hounded him to death for hate and clicks. He had two kids. F-ing monsters
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 4d agoThis is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
Think of all the mediocre white men with their plagiarism/stealing student work/sexual harassment who kept their jobs or quietly retired but are alive. Jason Arday’s situation did NOT have to play out or end this way, no matter his errors. And the media and everyone with a hot take is responsible.
"We’re 8 years into it this year and we wanted to nod to our roots whilst showcasing the vast landscape of weirdo Irish music... Show everyone around you that your village or your town or your city isn’t just for tech companies and car parks." ❤️ Feile na Greine thethinair.net/2026/08/feil...
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Diane di Prima was born on this day in 1934. She started writing her Revolutionary Letters in 1968, adding to them until shortly before her death in 2020. Here’s the first. #poetry
That harm to women and girls in general is not taken seriously, combined with multiple high-profile men continuing to get passes based on power, talent, or activism with other causes, creates a very worrying landscape for women. Tolerance is still way too high. It needs to start actually mattering.
Next time someone asks you the bad faith question “Have any women come forward?”, here you are.
socmot@socmot.bsky.social · 2w agoI despise Substack and have previously said I will never read it (and I don't). But I will break my rule just for this eally disturbing piece of writing by Neko Case, who was / is in a band, The New Pornographers, who were supported by The Frames in 2002. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...
Today I shall mostly be drinking this and listening to Neko Case.
The Editor of CB Editions @cbeditions.bsky.social Charles Boyle (pictured below) would like to get more books into bookshops & readers' hands. If you're a bookshop, or a reader, please order directly from him to make him smile! Please share this post. . . www.cbeditions.com/books.html
Between the Leto story and everything else it's as abundantly clear as ever that way too many people still don't care about or acknowledge the harm many men in the public eye do to women and girls, even when it's an open secret.
Now shpoolin': Classic Hiss Volume One: Boreens and Backroads. Irish bands/artists cover Pavement/Silver Jews to make money for Palestinian aid organisations. A great bunch of lads, etc etc classichiss.bandcamp.com/album/classi... #cassunday
“No more poetry in the shape of a cowardly maybe, or florescent yes, or cloying, collaborating, reactionary, status-loving, and desperately eager whatever-they-say-I’ll-do. I like no. It’s sidewise to a reverse mantra (om). It’s stealthy, portable, and unslouching.” Anne Boyer, avril 13, 2017.
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reading at Temple Bar Gallery tomorrow for the launch of @pva-books.bsky.social fashion issue yay www.templebargallery.com/whats-on/eve...
Reznikoff: the CBe July newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/07/news...
923 children died at Bessborough Mother and Baby Home between 1922 and 1998. Only 64 have known graves. Utterly shameful decision by Cork City Council to build apartments on the site. More erasure of the historical mistreatment and shaming of women in Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
Bessborough vigil hears survivors will chain themselves to diggers to stop building work
140 apartments are planned for the site of a mother and baby home where 923 children died
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fallowmedia.com/reviews/2026... Rare moment of reading and writing about reading, rather than applying for jobs!
Nora Lange – Day Care | Fallow Media
A world where the very instance of a feeling or thought’s inception is also that of its expression, poses a problem for literary form—the challenge Nora Lange sets herself is how to pose, once more an...
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We are delighted to share the cover for THE MOST NORMAL WOMAN: ESSAYS ON APPEARANCES by Roisin Kiberd, forthcoming August 27th! Designed by Elisha Zepeda What is normal, anyway? Find out more and pre-order here: tramppress.com/product/the-...
A great review-essay about CONVERSATIONS WITH NEW YORK SCHOOL POETS in the New York Review of Books! Poetry, gossip, publishing, New York, economics--what's not to love? www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
When the Rents Were Low | Joe Dunthorne
An oral history of the New York School Poets suggests how its successive cohorts have changed over the years.
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I'm so proud of this one, and happy to see it in the world. Available now from Broken Sleep. There will be a launch event with @leeannequinn.bsky.social 's wonderful Landscape with Question at Waterstone's Cork on July 28th 🎣
Broken Sleep Books@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 3mo agoHow complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net is a hybrid lyric-essay that moves between elegy, translation, & ecological witness, finding its gravitational centre in a sketch by Barrie Cooke of two figures hauling a pike from a boat. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.
I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.
To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.
Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 3mo agoMarjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56
How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net is a hybrid lyric-essay that moves between elegy, translation, & ecological witness, finding its gravitational centre in a sketch by Barrie Cooke of two figures hauling a pike from a boat. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Ellen will be reading at re:verb this weekend if you are in Dublin or environs Tickets here, yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/reverb.html, curated by @cmakris.bsky.social
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re :verb a festival of contemporary poetry & the verbal arts Dublin, Ireland Director: Christodoulos Makris Partner Venue: Kirkos Partner Bo...
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Broken Sleep Books@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 3mo agoHow complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net is a hybrid lyric-essay that moves between elegy, translation, & ecological witness, finding its gravitational centre in a sketch by Barrie Cooke of two figures hauling a pike from a boat. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
#OtD 1 Jun 1940 the Greek anarchist feminist and poet Katerina Gogou was born. She opposed the military dictatorship, supported workers' struggles and the burgeoning LGBT movt, and was frequently subjected to police violence. Commemorated by this design: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...
I wrote a piece for the fashion issue of @pva-books.bsky.social on the adolescent nihilism of Courtney Love's silk slips, babydoll dresses, The Virgin Suicides and other peak Tumblr-era teenage dream dresses💕obviously doctor you've never been a 13 yr old girl!!! papervisualart.com/product/pva-...
Well done Revolutionary Housing League lreland Longterm empty buildings are vandalism Time for "use it or lose it"
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
